Excerpt from The Quest of the Golden Valley: A Story of Adventure on the Yukon In return for his services, George found himself a welcome guest on the boats of the fishing fleet or on Jim Raymond's long tramps with rod or gun. This companionship with strong, simple men made him seem older than his schoolmates, and While they liked him they did not understand his quiet ways and put it down to a lack Of spunk. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.